Enric Morera i Viura
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- The politician from the Bloc Nacionalista Valencià
Enric Morera i Viura (sometimes spelled Enrique Morera) (22 May 1865 – 12 March 1942), was a Spanish Catalan musician and composer.
Morera was born in Barcelona but moved with his father, a musician, to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1867, studying organ, trumpet, and violin there. He returned in 1883 to Barcelona, studying with Isaac Albeniz and Felipe Pedrell. Later he lived for two years in Brussels before returning to Argentina. He finally returned to Barcelona in 1890 where he was prominent in the movement Catalan Musical Modernism, with for example the opera La Fada (The Fairy) in 1897. He founded the choir "Catalunya Nova". He wrote books on musical theory such as a "Practical Treatise on Harmony".
Among his students were Manuel Infante, Xavier Montsalvatge and Carlos Surinach.
His music is generally strongly nationalist in character, and much forms part of the repertory of Catalan national compositions. He wrote more than 800 compositions. Included are songs, a Requiem Mass, lyric works, symphonic works, operas, symphonic poems, and sardanas for cobla.
Although he spent some time in Argentina and Belgium, Morera spent most of his life in Barcelona, and died there in 1942.
[edit] Works
Representative works include
- Dansa del gnoms, 1893
- Introducció a l'Atlántida, symphonic poem, 1893
- Minuet per a quartet de corda, 1889
- Jesús de Nazareth, 1894
- La Fada, Opera, 1897
- L'alegria que passa, 1898
- Missa de rèquiem, 1899
- La nit de l'amor, 1901
- El comte Arnau, 1905
- Bruniselda, 1906
- Empòrium, Opera, 1906
- Don Joan de Serrallonga,1907
- La Santa Espina, 1907
- Cançons populars catalanes harmonitzades, 1910
- Titaina, Opera, 1912
- Tassarba, Opera, 1916
- Concert per a violoncel i orquestra, 1917
- El poema de la Nit i el Dia i de la Terra i de l'Amor, symphonic poem, 1920
- Cançons de carrer, 1926
- La Marieta de l'ullviu, 1926
- La cançó dels catalans, 1930
- El castell dels tres dragons, 1931
- Dotze cançons del Llibre de la Pàtria, 1936
